A look at Leidos Holdings Inc’s (LDOS) recent performance gives investors their first glimpse of hope.

On Tuesday, Leidos Holdings Inc (NYSE: LDOS) was -1.55% drop from the session before settling in for the closing price of $152.50. A 52-week range for LDOS has been $105.52 – $202.90.

Technology Sector giant saw their annual sales surged by 8.68% over the last five years. When this article was written, the company’s average yearly earnings per share was at 38.55%. With a float of $131.75 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $133.34 million.

The firm has a total of 47000 workers. Let’s measure their productivity. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 16.59%, operating margin of 10.85%, and the pretax margin is 9.67%.

Leidos Holdings Inc (LDOS) Insider Activity

Also, it is sometimes useful to examine the sentiment of large-scale investors toward Leidos Holdings Inc stocks. The insider ownership of Leidos Holdings Inc is 1.26%, while institutional ownership is 77.27%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Nov 20 ’24, was worth 322,261. In this transaction Director of this company bought 2,000 shares at a rate of $161.13, taking the stock ownership to the 2,000 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Nov 12 ’24, when Company’s Sector President sold 1,137 for $201.60, making the entire transaction worth $229,219. This insider now owns 44,149 shares in total.

Leidos Holdings Inc (LDOS) Earnings and Forecasts

Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 2.51 per share during the current fiscal year.

According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 38.55% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 15.41% during the next five years compared to -17.61% drop over the previous five years of trading.

Leidos Holdings Inc (NYSE: LDOS) Trading Performance Indicators

You can see what Leidos Holdings Inc (LDOS) is doing with its current performance indicators. In the most recent quarter, the stock posted a quick ratio of 1.15. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 1.23. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 15.95.

For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 8.78, a number that is poised to hit 2.27 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 10.60 in one year’s time.

Technical Analysis of Leidos Holdings Inc (LDOS)

Analysing the last 5-days average volume posted by the [Leidos Holdings Inc, LDOS], we can find that recorded value of 1.42 million was better than the volume posted last year of 0.95 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 24.93%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 4.46.

During the past 100 days, Leidos Holdings Inc’s (LDOS) raw stochastic average was set at 15.56%, which indicates a significant increase from 14.79% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 18.63% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 34.47% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.

At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $170.35, while its 200-day Moving Average is $150.75. Now, the first resistance to watch is $151.77. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $153.41. The third major resistance level sits at $154.85. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $148.69, it is likely to go to the next support level at $147.25. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $145.61.

Leidos Holdings Inc (NYSE: LDOS) Key Stats

There are 133,433K outstanding shares of the company, which has a market capitalization of 20.03 billion. As of now, sales total 15,438 M while income totals 199,000 K. Its latest quarter income was 4,190 M while its last quarter net income were 364,000 K.